have passport, will travel

My new passport came back in exactly two weeks, which is excellent considering I had taken the application in to a Service Centre ("up to a month") rather than to a passport office ("up to 10 days"). I was relieved they didn't reject the photos - the Service Centre Passport-Picture-Approval-guy (yes, there is such a person) made me get them redone in black and white (there was a "shine" on my nose) and then still expressed doubt they would pass. I protested that there was a shine on my nose last passport and the passport before that in the exact same spot. But the guidelines are much stricter now, he said. I almost went to powder my nose for real in the bathroom out of desperation.